Renato Salvatori

Renato Salvatori (20 March 1933 – 27 March 1988) was an Italian multi-purpose character actor.

Renato Salvatori
Salvatori in L'Harem (1967)
Born	(1933-03-20)20 March 1933 Seravezza, Italy
Died	27 March 1988(1988-03-27) (aged 55) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1952–1981
Spouse(s)	Annie Girardot (1962–1988: his death)

Born in Seravezza, Province of Lucca, Salvatori began his career in his teens playing juvenile romantic roles. After working with directors such as Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, in the 1960s, he developed into one of Italy's strongest characters actors.

He met French actress Annie Girardot on the set of the film, Rocco and His Brothers (1960), and married her on 6 January 1962. In sharp contrast to their off-camera relationship, in the movie Salvatori played a boxer-turned-thug who viciously rapes Annie, who played a prostitute. They had a daughter, Giulia; later the couple separated but never divorced.

Salvatori died in Rome of cirrhosis of the liver on March 27, 1988, seven days after his 55th birthday.